Vance v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters'’ statement of the case: The claim in this case was transmitted to the court by the following resolution of the Senate: “ In the Senate oe the United States, u April 21,1892. “ Resolved, That the claim of George T. Yance and Guy P. Yance, executors of the estate of William L. Yance, deceased, late of Memphis, Tennessee, represented by Senate bill numbered forty, be, and the same is hereby, referred to the Court of Claims, with all the papers in the case, under…
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The Reporters'’ statement of the case: The claim in this case was transmitted to the court by the following resolution of the Senate: “ In the Senate oe the United States, u April 21,1892. “ Resolved, That the claim of George T. Yance and Guy P. Yance, executors of the estate of William L. Yance, deceased, late of Memphis, Tennessee, represented by Senate bill numbered forty, be, and the same is hereby, referred to the Court of Claims, with all the papers in the case, under the provisions of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, commonly known as the ‘ Bowman Act,’ as…
1Opinion of the CourtNott, J.
The claimants move the court to insert in the findings matters which have been adjudged to be incompetent evidence and facts which are irrelevant to the legal conditions of the case.
The findings of fact in appealable cases are simply to present to the appellate court the questions of law involved in the case. The court above is interested in no other question. The findings go up amplified by the pleadings of the parties and the opinion of the court below. They receive in the court above the comments and criticisms and explanations of counsel. No legal right is determined until the appellate…
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